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Background: Commercial video-recording software may miss a frame when recording the screen. The Make Movie dialog-box does not skip frames.
Use Make Movie to record :
• a movie with the GIF file-type.
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•a number of images with PNG, JPG, or BMP file-types.
The images are numbered, and are at equal increments of the Master Machine Angle.
The Make-Movie dialog-box is now open |
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Top-Tip - Before you open the dialog, do ALT+H to move the Master Machine Angle to zero(0). |
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You should see a rectangle in the Graphic-Area. This is the recording Frame. Usually, you will want to edit the size and position of the recording Frame. Specify the Frame Size and Position of the Frame
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File-path and File-Type
Top-Tip: Enter a file-name that ends with text and not a number. |
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FILE-TYPES GIF file-type.
PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP file-types.
To compile PNG images as a movie, I use Avidemux 2.6. - a free tool you can download from the internet. My lawyer tells me I cannot recommend it.
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Number-of-Frames
Make Movie... button
When you click the Make Movie button, the model moves the model to the Start-Angle and makes the movie. Please wait as the file(s) are saved to your PC. |